About
Made in San Jose is a local guide to one big city at the south end of the bay: its makers, bakers, food, shops, places to stay, history and stories, neighborhood by neighborhood.
What Made In is
Made In is a family of city guides from Good Neighbor, the Bay Area city guide created by Joelle. Each Made In site celebrates one town: the people who grow, bake, brew, paint and build things there, and the places worth a stop. See the Good Neighbor guide.
Made in San Jose is built with Bossreach, which gathers the directory and runs the site’s content system, and draws its puzzles from the playbook of Bossfeed.
How the listings are made
The directory starts from public sources: OpenStreetMap, local listings and each business’s own website. Descriptions are short and factual and come from what a business says about itself; review lines are quoted word for word with a link to where they were posted.
Is your business here, missing, or out of date? Use Claim or update this listing on its page, or write to us. Listing is free.
Photo credits
The Santa Clara Valley spread out below the ridges of Alum Rock Park — Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A snowy egret hunting from a fence at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge — Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The lower pond of the Japanese Friendship Garden in Kelley Park — Maya Visvanathan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Downtown San Jose seen from the hills near Almaden Lake — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Plaza de César Chávez in downtown San Jose — Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The whitewashed walls and tile roof of the Peralta Adobe, built about 1797 — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
St. Joseph’s Church, now the cathedral basilica, in an early photographic print — Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
An old postcard of the electric light tower lit up over a San Jose street at night — Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The stepped Art Deco front of Hotel De Anza on West Santa Clara Street — EugeneZelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 19th-century bird’s-eye view map of the city of San José — Gray (W. Vallance) & C. Gifford; Nagel, L. (Louis); Hare, George H., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A bird’s-eye view of San José in 1875, looking north — Gifford, Charles; Gifford, W. C.; A.L. Bancroft & Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen — Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lincoln Avenue, Willow Glen’s main street — Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A street in Willow Glen — Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The corner of Jackson and North Fifth Streets in Japantown — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A street in San Jose’s Japantown — Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin on North Fifth Street, built in 1937 — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Japanese American Museum of San Jose on North Fifth Street — Mark Yasuda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Beds of roses in bloom at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden — The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden — The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden district — The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rosicrucian Park, home of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum — The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Oak and pine on a hillside at Alum Rock Park — Advyth Ramachandran, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A fountain at Alum Rock Park — Don DeBold, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Mexican Heritage Plaza on Alum Rock Avenue — Yngvadottir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hills of Almaden Quicksilver County Park — FASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Almaden Quicksilver County Park — FASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Casa Grande, the 1854 mine manager’s house in New Almaden — Tom Hilton, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Almaden Lake in the Almaden Valley — Bunty4, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alviso Marina County Park at sunset — Wanderenvy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Former salt ponds beside Alviso Marina County Park — Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The old Bayside Cannery building on Hope Street in Alviso — Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Winchester Mystery House — The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Santana Row in West San Jose — FASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
History Park in Kelley Park — HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The half-size replica of the electric light tower at History Park — Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The main building and dome of Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton — Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in a photograph from about 1904-1909 — C. C. Pierce, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Guadalupe River Trail — Sandip Bhattacharya from San Jose, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Japanese Friendship Garden in Kelley Park — King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Illustrations made with AI for this site (no real people or businesses shown): Blossoming fruit trees in the foothills above a valley city at golden hour; Hands sorting fresh apricots and plums into a wooden crate; A word search, a pencil, coffee, a few prunes and a rose on a café table; An easel and paints in a small sunlit studio.
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